French Suite No. 1 in D Minor: Courante
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, Niccolo Michetti, et al. The Great Cascade (begun c. 1721), Peterhof (Petrodvorets)
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, Niccolo Michetti, et al. The Great Cascade (begun c. 1721), Peterhof (Petrodvorets)
The French Suite in D Minor was composed in 1987. This six-movement work clearly shows my affection for the music of Bach and Handel, although no identical dance sequence is found in either of the German masters' keyboard compositions.
In this courante, a Franco-Italian dance whose name implies running or flowing, the upper voice takes precedence, and a steadily bubbling stream of eighth notes is heard continuously.